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Originally Posted by aklim
It is always much easier to talk about being egalitarian when your belly is full, you are sleeping in a warm and comfortable house in the middle of winter and you have good income. Am I a smarter person if I am a Harvard or Yale grad than a barely accredited school? IDK. The question is, if you are an Ivy League grad and I'm a grad of some backwater school that is accredited but nobody heard of, all things about equal, who will make the best impression when they are looking at candidates. After the good life is had, you can talk all day long about the philosophy but try not to tell that to a hungry and cold person who is living from paycheck to paycheck. He probably won't care.
Is college even the right avenue? IDK. Depends on what you are trying to do. If money is no object, WGAS. If you are like most and have a budget, consideration of whether a college education will have an ROI or not is kinda important. If I am fabulously wealthy, I could do a PhD in flying saucers hidden at Area 51, spend $300K and probably couldn't get a job that I would ever be able to justify the degree with financially. Back on earth, we need to see if we can make a college degree a financial investment or not.
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When you graduate form the Ivy League Schools and do well the Jobs come looking for You if you Education was about something the Business or Science can use.
Also Parents of Wealthy Kids want their Children to know enough to not only hang on to the Wealth that they have but able to increase that Wealth.
And, in fact Wealth can easily be lost.
If I believe what the Article is saying Business is evidently hiring a bunch of highly trained and motivated Ivy League Drones.
The article frequently mentions how the Students seem to be confused about why and what they are doing. What the Article does not mention is that the Students may be confused but despite that they are still making the grade in College. Meaning that despite the supposed confusion they are still able to successfully push themselves to make the
Grade. That is a skill all by itself.
When you hire one of those Graduates you know what you are getting more then you do with someone from an unknown College. You are getting someone driven and trained to succeed even if they don't have a clear reason why.
You are also getting someone from an upper class culture.